European jihadism is a multi-faceted social phenomenon. It is not
only linked to the extremist behavior of a limited group, but also
to a much more global crisis, including the lack of a utopian
vision and a loss of meaning among the middle classes, and the
humiliation and denial of citizenship among disaffiliated young
people in poor districts all over Western Europe. This book
explores how European jihadism is fundamentally grounded in an
unbridled and modern imagination, in an uneasy relationship with
social, cultural, and economic reality. That imagination emerges
among: young women and their longing for another family model;
adolescents and their desire to become adults and to overcome the
family crisis; people with mental problems for whom jihad is a
catharsis; and young converts who seek contrast with a disenchanted
secular Europe. The family and its crisis, in many ways, plays a
role in promoting jihadism, particularly in families of immigrant
origin whose relationship to patriarchy is different from that of
the mainstream society in Europe. Exclusion from mainstream society
is also a factor: at the urban level, a large proportion of
jihadists come from poor, stigmatized, and ethnically segregated
districts. But jihadism is also an expression of the loss of hope
in the future in a globalized world among middle class and
lower-class youth.
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